RE: New bee: How to convert 'LONG' data

Whew...my old failing memory is not totally useless...

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Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:04 PM
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Because of the LONG you need to instead use the SQL*Plus COPY command.

 COPY

 COPY copies data from a query to a table in a local or remote  database.

 COPY {FROM database | TO database | FROM database TO database}

            {APPEND|CREATE|INSERT|REPLACE} destination_table
            [(column, column, column, ...)] USING query

 where database has the following syntax:
     username[/password]@connect_identifier

Before running COPY, you might need to set/adjust a few SQL*Plus settings (ARRAYSIZE and MAXDATA), and also 'set long 999999'.

Suzy

Sridhar Moparthy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a table 'x' with one of the column as 'LONG'
> I would like to copy the data from the above table 'x' into a different
> table 'Y' with the same structure.
>
> When I tried "insert into x select * from y" I am getting
> "Illegal use of LONG data type".
>
> Could any one please help me to move the data?
>
> Thanks
> Sridhar.
>
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